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Written Warranty for Good Citizen
Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- Recorded in the history of revolutionary struggle for achieving the cause of Korea's liberation from Japan's colonial rule is an anecdote about a written warranty for a good citizen.

The anti-Japanese war heroine Kim Jong Suk was arrested by the Japs in summer of Juche 26 (1937) when she was conducting underground activities in Taoquanli of China on the instructions of President Kim Il Sung.

The revolutionary organization in Taoquanli called on its members to take an emergency step to rescue her. They formed a delegation to file a strong protest against the unwarranted arrest of a guiltless, innocent citizen, demanding her immediate release.

The enemies promised that they would release her, if a written warranty for a good citizen signed by 500 inhabitants was prepared.

It was a tall order to take assurance of 500 people in Taoquanli, which comprised some 200 households. And it was a common, popular mentality not to seal rashly with one's thumb a document testifying that a "disturbing element", spotted as a "traitor" or "communist bandit", was in fact a "good citizen".

But people, who were fascinated by warm love and care shown by Kim Jong Suk and fully supported her revolutionary work for the country and nation, placed their stamps and thumbs on the written warranty.

The enemies were surprised at seeing the written warranty signed by 500 seals and thumbs and set her free at last.

Recalling the story about this written warranty in his reminiscences "With the Century", the President wrote that Kim Jong Suk was duly paid back by the people, whom she had treasured and nursed with so much care, with all the affection she had devoted to them.

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